Lyrics from Another World is in the Air
STAYING QUEER
How’d I always know I’d be raising someone alone?
Fantasy of a kid, a dog, a truck was all I’d need
Now I watch TV at night
Folding laundry by its light
And I wonder what else could still be
How’d I never know that I’d be drinking a beer alone
In the hours after we put our kid to bed
Staring at my phone till it falls from my hand
Dreaming alone till I wake up and do it again
If aging’s part of life, why does it cut like a knife?
Why does it feel like we're fighting alone?
I miss the days when I’d live with a thousand friends
We’d cook dinner and laugh it off
In my 20s I was marching in the streets every week
In my 40s I can’t seem to get out the door
And every day the temperature’s rising
Civil war on the horizon
I wonder, what’s it gonna take?
In my 20s I was was another strand in a spider’s web
Catching all the fun that we could catch
Now I’m hanging down by a worn out thread
How much further can I stretch?
If aging’s part of life, why does it steal in the night?
Why does it take what we’re not ready to give?
I’m having a crisis
Let’s have a good cry, sis
Let’s change the station and change the song
Whether you’re a mother or whether you’re a brother
You’re stayin alive, stayin alive
Feel the city breaking and everybody’s shaking
We’re stayin alive, stayin alive
Ah, ah, ah, ah stayin alive, stayin alive
Ah, ah, ah, ah stayin alive
We’re still here
Getting older, stayin queer
Have no fear
It’s a fire that smolders, it’s crystal clear
Whether you’re a mother or whether you’re a brother
You’re stayin alive, stayin alive
Feel the city breaking and everybody’s shaking
We’re stayin alive, stayin alive
Ah, ah, ah, ah stayin alive, stayin alive
Ah, ah, ah, ah stayin alive
How’d I always know I’d be raising someone alone?
Fantasy of a kid, a dog, a truck was all I’d need
Now I watch TV at night
Folding laundry by its light
And I wonder what else could still be
How’d I never know that I’d be drinking a beer alone
In the hours after we put our kid to bed
Staring at my phone till it falls from my hand
Dreaming alone till I wake up and do it again
If aging’s part of life, why does it cut like a knife?
Why does it feel like we're fighting alone?
I miss the days when I’d live with a thousand friends
We’d cook dinner and laugh it off
In my 20s I was marching in the streets every week
In my 40s I can’t seem to get out the door
And every day the temperature’s rising
Civil war on the horizon
I wonder, what’s it gonna take?
In my 20s I was was another strand in a spider’s web
Catching all the fun that we could catch
Now I’m hanging down by a worn out thread
How much further can I stretch?
If aging’s part of life, why does it steal in the night?
Why does it take what we’re not ready to give?
I’m having a crisis
Let’s have a good cry, sis
Let’s change the station and change the song
Whether you’re a mother or whether you’re a brother
You’re stayin alive, stayin alive
Feel the city breaking and everybody’s shaking
We’re stayin alive, stayin alive
Ah, ah, ah, ah stayin alive, stayin alive
Ah, ah, ah, ah stayin alive
We’re still here
Getting older, stayin queer
Have no fear
It’s a fire that smolders, it’s crystal clear
Whether you’re a mother or whether you’re a brother
You’re stayin alive, stayin alive
Feel the city breaking and everybody’s shaking
We’re stayin alive, stayin alive
Ah, ah, ah, ah stayin alive, stayin alive
Ah, ah, ah, ah stayin alive
GHOST IN THE SHEETS
Last night I had a dream
Today it fucked me up
Made me walk in the shadow
Of time already passed
And what do you know of that?
And what do you feel at all?
Why am I the one left
Holding on?
Get outta my head
Find someone else to haunt
Get outta my bed
You’re like a ghost in the sheets
No one ever said
That it would all be worth it
And in the end
I’m still paying while you find love again
The other night I had a date
Or something like that
We sat on the couch
A million miles apart
And I built a wall
And I bristled at her touch
However long it’s been I guess it’s not
Been long enough
Get outta my head
Find someone else to haunt
Get outta my bed
You’re like a ghost in the sheets
Our love is dead
So why’s it taking up all this space?
No one ever said
How this shit, how
It ever ends
I’m trying to exorcise your ghost
From my life
Oh-oh-oh
Go on, it’s time to move on
Now I dream of a day
When I’m free from the past
I walk in the sun
Towards someone good
And I may be older
And I am wiser
But I have not
Given up on love
Last night I had a dream
Today it fucked me up
Made me walk in the shadow
Of time already passed
And what do you know of that?
And what do you feel at all?
Why am I the one left
Holding on?
Get outta my head
Find someone else to haunt
Get outta my bed
You’re like a ghost in the sheets
No one ever said
That it would all be worth it
And in the end
I’m still paying while you find love again
The other night I had a date
Or something like that
We sat on the couch
A million miles apart
And I built a wall
And I bristled at her touch
However long it’s been I guess it’s not
Been long enough
Get outta my head
Find someone else to haunt
Get outta my bed
You’re like a ghost in the sheets
Our love is dead
So why’s it taking up all this space?
No one ever said
How this shit, how
It ever ends
I’m trying to exorcise your ghost
From my life
Oh-oh-oh
Go on, it’s time to move on
Now I dream of a day
When I’m free from the past
I walk in the sun
Towards someone good
And I may be older
And I am wiser
But I have not
Given up on love
SHOT IN THE DARK
Kiss was sweet like a mountain stream
She held my hands she held my dreams
One day we could tie the knot
Have some kids, do all the things
She was a tall glass of water
She was a walk in the park
Couldn’t fall for her harder
Unless she was a shot in the dark
Smile was crooked like a come over here
He held my eyes, he held my fears
Pulled me closer my dreams slipped away
Like my filthy work clothes at the end of the day
He was a tall shot of whiskey
He was my new favorite song
The words were strong and risky
I could sing them all night long
Oooh oooh
I was an empty bottle, spinning around for miles
One hand on the throttle, the other on the radio dial
Then I fell for a roaring flame
We burned down the world from which I came
We danced, we flickered, I cried in pain,
He slipped through my fingers again and again
He was a rising phoenix, he caught me in his draft
But it was all scenic, the fire burned down to ash
You walk in, with angels and ghosts
Fruits at your fingertips, truth in your throat
I never knew there was love quite like this
You found me and brought me to life with your kiss
He’s a tall glass of water, he’s whiskey and he’s wine
His fire smolders hotter, he’s risky and he’s mine
Ooh ooh
Kiss was sweet like a mountain stream
She held my hands she held my dreams
One day we could tie the knot
Have some kids, do all the things
She was a tall glass of water
She was a walk in the park
Couldn’t fall for her harder
Unless she was a shot in the dark
Smile was crooked like a come over here
He held my eyes, he held my fears
Pulled me closer my dreams slipped away
Like my filthy work clothes at the end of the day
He was a tall shot of whiskey
He was my new favorite song
The words were strong and risky
I could sing them all night long
Oooh oooh
I was an empty bottle, spinning around for miles
One hand on the throttle, the other on the radio dial
Then I fell for a roaring flame
We burned down the world from which I came
We danced, we flickered, I cried in pain,
He slipped through my fingers again and again
He was a rising phoenix, he caught me in his draft
But it was all scenic, the fire burned down to ash
You walk in, with angels and ghosts
Fruits at your fingertips, truth in your throat
I never knew there was love quite like this
You found me and brought me to life with your kiss
He’s a tall glass of water, he’s whiskey and he’s wine
His fire smolders hotter, he’s risky and he’s mine
Ooh ooh
DRIVE AWAY
Get on in
We're gonna drive
To California
Or somewhere tonight
Or we'll never leave
This ghost town
Where headlights dance in the trees
As they roll across the ground
Where will we be free?
Is it the city?
Where nobody knows
What you mean to me?
Where will we thrive?
Is it the highway?
You made me a CD
Let's get out the driveway
Let's drive away
Away
Let's just go bowling
Or to the diner
Get lost on the backroads
Joni Mitchell in A Minor
"If you're driving into town with a dark cloud above you,
Dial in the number whose bound to love you"
Where will we be free?
Is it the country?
Where everybody knows
What you mean to me?
Where will we thrive?
Is it the long drive?
You made me a CD
Let's get real high
Let's drive away
Away
You went to art school
New York City daydream
I dropped out
Drove 3000 miles across 80
You moved to Philly
I moved to New York later
Now 25 years and
we live in the same city
Katie, Katie, Katie
Where will we be free?
Is it the city?
Where we live our lives
And dream of the country?
Where will we thrive?
I'll be the driver
Let's escape our lives
And go to the diner
Let's drive away
Away
Away
Away
Get on in
We're gonna drive
To California
Or somewhere tonight
Or we'll never leave
This ghost town
Where headlights dance in the trees
As they roll across the ground
Where will we be free?
Is it the city?
Where nobody knows
What you mean to me?
Where will we thrive?
Is it the highway?
You made me a CD
Let's get out the driveway
Let's drive away
Away
Let's just go bowling
Or to the diner
Get lost on the backroads
Joni Mitchell in A Minor
"If you're driving into town with a dark cloud above you,
Dial in the number whose bound to love you"
Where will we be free?
Is it the country?
Where everybody knows
What you mean to me?
Where will we thrive?
Is it the long drive?
You made me a CD
Let's get real high
Let's drive away
Away
You went to art school
New York City daydream
I dropped out
Drove 3000 miles across 80
You moved to Philly
I moved to New York later
Now 25 years and
we live in the same city
Katie, Katie, Katie
Where will we be free?
Is it the city?
Where we live our lives
And dream of the country?
Where will we thrive?
I'll be the driver
Let's escape our lives
And go to the diner
Let's drive away
Away
Away
Away
20 YEARS (AFGHANISTAN)
20 years we’ve been on your land
Said we came to save you from a man
Now you’re running with a baby on your back
And democracy starts with a bullet
Ends with an empty hand
oh-oh-oh
20 years since she lost her only son
It was the first time the boy had held a gun
Thought he was doing something righteous, something good
But Uncle Sam’s a trickster
You best mark my word
oh-oh-oh
Holy war, bitter fruit
When even the devil turns his back on you
Saying I have to leave, the time has come
As danger surrounds you, crowds out the sun
He flies away, leaving you to make a way
Out of no way
20 years since her vote was the only one
420 saying “give the president the sun”
Let him light up anybody, let him bring the floods
And revenge is a sweet tooth
Satisfied by blood
Oh-oh-oh
Holy war, bitter fruit
The whole world’s watching now, what will we do?
Let you freefall into the stranglehold
Of men who kill what they can’t control
Or will we see ourselves in you
After all we’ve put you through
In 20 years
20 years
20 years ago she was born into the war
By 17 she knew just what she was fighting for
Joined her sisters on the frontline, carried a gun
And in her mind, she’d already won
Oh-oh-oh
20 years we’ve been on your land
Said we came to save you from a man
Now you’re running with a baby on your back
And democracy starts with a bullet
Ends with an empty hand
oh-oh-oh
20 years since she lost her only son
It was the first time the boy had held a gun
Thought he was doing something righteous, something good
But Uncle Sam’s a trickster
You best mark my word
oh-oh-oh
Holy war, bitter fruit
When even the devil turns his back on you
Saying I have to leave, the time has come
As danger surrounds you, crowds out the sun
He flies away, leaving you to make a way
Out of no way
20 years since her vote was the only one
420 saying “give the president the sun”
Let him light up anybody, let him bring the floods
And revenge is a sweet tooth
Satisfied by blood
Oh-oh-oh
Holy war, bitter fruit
The whole world’s watching now, what will we do?
Let you freefall into the stranglehold
Of men who kill what they can’t control
Or will we see ourselves in you
After all we’ve put you through
In 20 years
20 years
20 years ago she was born into the war
By 17 she knew just what she was fighting for
Joined her sisters on the frontline, carried a gun
And in her mind, she’d already won
Oh-oh-oh
HOW’S YOUR MOM?
Another world
Is here and now
Put your phone down
And the shell of yourself
We’re at home now
Put your strategies on the shelf
We’re alone now
I’ve got eyes for no one else
Did you meet a girl you like?
Did you fix up your bike?
How far will you ride
Off the edges of your mind?
Did you go to the march?
Did it shake loose your heart?
It’s been tied so tight
Ready to put up a fight
How’s your mom?
How’s your cat?
How are you?
(x2)
I know we got some business
To get down to
But I been running myself ragged
I know that you have too
How’s your mom?
How’s your cat?
How are you?
Another world
Is in the air
Will you ride it?
The wave breaks exactly there
Are you inside it?
Wind rushing through your hair
Are you excited?
Are you scared?
How’s your mom?
How’s your cat?
How are you?
(x2)
I wanna be a mountain
You can be the river and the rain coming down and
Let’s make a landslide
Bring it down to the tides
That’s enough about me
That’s enough about my dreams
Sing your heart out
Let it all out
How’s your mom?
How’s your cat?
How are you?
(x3)
Another world
Is here and now
Put your phone down
And the shell of yourself
We’re at home now
Put your strategies on the shelf
We’re alone now
I’ve got eyes for no one else
Did you meet a girl you like?
Did you fix up your bike?
How far will you ride
Off the edges of your mind?
Did you go to the march?
Did it shake loose your heart?
It’s been tied so tight
Ready to put up a fight
How’s your mom?
How’s your cat?
How are you?
(x2)
I know we got some business
To get down to
But I been running myself ragged
I know that you have too
How’s your mom?
How’s your cat?
How are you?
Another world
Is in the air
Will you ride it?
The wave breaks exactly there
Are you inside it?
Wind rushing through your hair
Are you excited?
Are you scared?
How’s your mom?
How’s your cat?
How are you?
(x2)
I wanna be a mountain
You can be the river and the rain coming down and
Let’s make a landslide
Bring it down to the tides
That’s enough about me
That’s enough about my dreams
Sing your heart out
Let it all out
How’s your mom?
How’s your cat?
How are you?
(x3)
KING OF HEARTS
Go find your sister and
Tell her about me
Tell her that I’m the one
That you’ve been dreaming of
I’m nothing like the other boys
Won’t make you feel small
Once I was just like you
A lonesome girl against the wall
Now I fill out a suit
I wear my hair slicked back
Catch their eyes all on me and
Feel them pressed against my back
I’ve never been too much for words
I carry it on my sleeve but
If you take a chance on me
Girl, I’ll give you everything
Cuz I am the king of hearts
I rule on the side of love
Just one look and you can see
I was no accident
Made from all these parts
Sent down from the stars
To rule
As the King of Hearts
Now I’m standing next to you
I feel everything collide
Hope and heat and spark and light
A cosmic storm inside
When I reach for your hand it’s an invitation
Step out on the floor tonight
Let them feast their eyes on us
Let them see how bright you shine
In the arms of the King of Hearts
I rule on the side of love
We won’t die young
We’ll defy their stories of us
Made from all these parts
Sent down from the stars
To live
By our hearts
When I reach for your hand it’s an invitation
Step out on the floor tonight
Let them feast their eyes on us
Let them see how bright you shine
In the arms of the King of Hearts
I rule on the side of love
We won’t die young
We’ll defy their stories of us
Made from all these parts
Sent down from the stars
To live
By our hearts
Go find your sister and
Tell her about me
Tell her that I’m the one
That you’ve been dreaming of
I’m nothing like the other boys
Won’t make you feel small
Once I was just like you
A lonesome girl against the wall
Now I fill out a suit
I wear my hair slicked back
Catch their eyes all on me and
Feel them pressed against my back
I’ve never been too much for words
I carry it on my sleeve but
If you take a chance on me
Girl, I’ll give you everything
Cuz I am the king of hearts
I rule on the side of love
Just one look and you can see
I was no accident
Made from all these parts
Sent down from the stars
To rule
As the King of Hearts
Now I’m standing next to you
I feel everything collide
Hope and heat and spark and light
A cosmic storm inside
When I reach for your hand it’s an invitation
Step out on the floor tonight
Let them feast their eyes on us
Let them see how bright you shine
In the arms of the King of Hearts
I rule on the side of love
We won’t die young
We’ll defy their stories of us
Made from all these parts
Sent down from the stars
To live
By our hearts
When I reach for your hand it’s an invitation
Step out on the floor tonight
Let them feast their eyes on us
Let them see how bright you shine
In the arms of the King of Hearts
I rule on the side of love
We won’t die young
We’ll defy their stories of us
Made from all these parts
Sent down from the stars
To live
By our hearts
COURTNEY OF THE COUNTRY
I dreamt about you
In the hours before the dawn
It was like I never left
It was like I never slept
It’s been a long long time
Been a long long time
And I’m ready for you
Gonna sing you to the future
In the summers you were mine
And mine was yours
Riding on our bikes
Leaving open doors
Everyone grows old
If you’re lucky to do so
But all the doors are closed
And we’re gonna break them open now
Gonna break them open now
Cuz I miss how
My hands feel on your face
Before we put ourselves in place
You’re a strange light
I’m a ship that’s lost at sea
I’m a strange womb
And you’re my baby
It’s been a long long time
Been a long long time
And I’m ready for you
Gonna sing you to the future
This summer you’ll be mine
And I’ll be yours
You can read my mind
When I step foot on your porch
Everything I hold
Up for the world to see
You know what’s underneath
Cuz you’re Courtney of the country
You bring me to my knees
Cuz you’re Courtney of the country
It’s been a long long time
It’s been a long long time
I’m the queen you’re the crown
Your heart is my hometown
I dreamt about you
In the hours before the dawn
It was like I never left
It was like I never slept
It’s been a long long time
Been a long long time
And I’m ready for you
Gonna sing you to the future
In the summers you were mine
And mine was yours
Riding on our bikes
Leaving open doors
Everyone grows old
If you’re lucky to do so
But all the doors are closed
And we’re gonna break them open now
Gonna break them open now
Cuz I miss how
My hands feel on your face
Before we put ourselves in place
You’re a strange light
I’m a ship that’s lost at sea
I’m a strange womb
And you’re my baby
It’s been a long long time
Been a long long time
And I’m ready for you
Gonna sing you to the future
This summer you’ll be mine
And I’ll be yours
You can read my mind
When I step foot on your porch
Everything I hold
Up for the world to see
You know what’s underneath
Cuz you’re Courtney of the country
You bring me to my knees
Cuz you’re Courtney of the country
It’s been a long long time
It’s been a long long time
I’m the queen you’re the crown
Your heart is my hometown
MAN PROBLEMS
Got some problems
Don’t know how to solve them
They are both men
Not lovers, not even my friends
One was born with
All the best stuff
But somehow rich is never
Rich enough
The other’s a monster
Who roams the land
He catches girls and women
In the palm of his hand
I crack them open
Take a look inside
One’s ice cold
and full of pride
The other’s a boy
Inside of a man
Who sets things on fire
Just to see if he can
And what can I do?
Can I do
About you
And men like you?
Bound by blood
And family name
It’s the river of time
And a legacy of shame
Now there’s a faultline
Through our family
It’s the ones who protect him
And the ones who speak
But if we know what he is
And what he has done
Does it depend on us
To tell someone?
When there’s rot in our family trees
What is our responsibility?
And what will we do?
Will we do
About you
And men like you?
These are my man problems
Keeping me up at night
My man problems!
Oh I can’t go it alone
No I can’t hang up the phone
I can’t let you off the hook
No I can’t seem to close the book
On these man problems
Oh you got one of these in your family?
Hmm I think we’ve got one of these just about every place we look
How we gonna kick em out, toss em round, show em to the curb?
If we free ourselves, will we free the world?
Got some problems
Don’t know how to solve them
They are both men
Not lovers, not even my friends
One was born with
All the best stuff
But somehow rich is never
Rich enough
The other’s a monster
Who roams the land
He catches girls and women
In the palm of his hand
I crack them open
Take a look inside
One’s ice cold
and full of pride
The other’s a boy
Inside of a man
Who sets things on fire
Just to see if he can
And what can I do?
Can I do
About you
And men like you?
Bound by blood
And family name
It’s the river of time
And a legacy of shame
Now there’s a faultline
Through our family
It’s the ones who protect him
And the ones who speak
But if we know what he is
And what he has done
Does it depend on us
To tell someone?
When there’s rot in our family trees
What is our responsibility?
And what will we do?
Will we do
About you
And men like you?
These are my man problems
Keeping me up at night
My man problems!
Oh I can’t go it alone
No I can’t hang up the phone
I can’t let you off the hook
No I can’t seem to close the book
On these man problems
Oh you got one of these in your family?
Hmm I think we’ve got one of these just about every place we look
How we gonna kick em out, toss em round, show em to the curb?
If we free ourselves, will we free the world?
SOLIDARITY
Go take over the tower
Drop a flag from the bridge
They will level the hammer
And we will light the flame
All of their cameras
Will tell a lie
But you and I we know
We’ll stitch the truth into the sky
And I’ve never seen suffering quite like this
You hold your dead child and I see mine in your arms
In all of human history there’s no feeling so right
As solidarity your fight is my fight
You tell me I must hate you
For hating what you do
But you and I we know
Each of us must choose
Are we our government?
Are we the war machine?
Or are we something brave
That stands in between?
And you have never seen suffering quite like this
In the shadow of history, our people gone adrift
How can the lesson of our trials lead us here
When solidarity is what frees us from fear?
Now we beg our congressmen
Who profit from the gun
In this shell of a democracy
What must be done?
How many letters?
How many calls?
What is the price
For all this human life?
And we see your suffering, we will not turn away
History is being written in heartbreak every day
How, how do we stop?
How will we stop the bombs?
Go take over the tower
Drop a flag from the bridge
They will level the hammer
And we will light the flame
All of their cameras
Will tell a lie
But you and I we know
We’ll stitch the truth into the sky
And I’ve never seen suffering quite like this
You hold your dead child and I see mine in your arms
In all of human history there’s no feeling so right
As solidarity your fight is my fight
You tell me I must hate you
For hating what you do
But you and I we know
Each of us must choose
Are we our government?
Are we the war machine?
Or are we something brave
That stands in between?
And you have never seen suffering quite like this
In the shadow of history, our people gone adrift
How can the lesson of our trials lead us here
When solidarity is what frees us from fear?
Now we beg our congressmen
Who profit from the gun
In this shell of a democracy
What must be done?
How many letters?
How many calls?
What is the price
For all this human life?
And we see your suffering, we will not turn away
History is being written in heartbreak every day
How, how do we stop?
How will we stop the bombs?
Country Boys in the City
By Owen Taylor, My Gay Banjo
Chords: (Capo in the 2nd fret)
Intro/Choruses: G, Em7, D, C
Verses: Em7, G
(Note: on guitar, Julia plays Em7 like an open G chord but with an E for the base note)
(intro/chorus)
we were country boys in the city,
making noise and looking pretty,
now I'm sitting here in my hometown, tired and dirty,
singing loud to the night, I want your dirty
hands to hold me tight, and take me on,
and take me on
(verse)
not the golden child
not the man on trial
we were only boys
running wild...running
(chorus)
we were country boys in the city,
making noise and looking pretty,
now I'm sitting here in my hometown, tired and dirty,
singing loud to the night, I want your dirty
hands to hold me tight, and take me on,
and take me on
(verse)
things cry out in the night
looking for love or looking for a fight
i hear your voice and i wanna love...
love you right...love you
love you right...love you
(chorus)
we were country boys in the city,
making noise and looking pretty,
now I'm sitting here in my hometown, tired and dirty,
singing loud to the night, I want your dirty
hands to hold me tight, and take me on,
and take me on
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh
oh oh oh oh
(we were) country boys, in the city
making noise, looking pretty
singing loud to the night
take me on
Like Magic
by Julia Steele Allen (My Gay Banjo)
Chords: (Capo 5th fret)
hey there fox, light a cigarette for me
scratch it out, strike it up
i’m a lady, don’t you know
i’m a lady of the night
gonna light it up for me
gonna go rock n roll on me
gonna taste all i want for free
for free for free
sayin who---
who me?
who me?
devil’s daughter, it’s a fine debate
we could dance all night, we could stay up late
don’t you want me to want you back
don’t you want me to teach you how
gonna teach you to scream and shout
gonna get all your demons out
give the people something to dream about
they’re sayin, sayin, wanna know
who---
are you?
are you?
clock strikes it’s a helter skelter
gonna search for some evening shelter
to crush crush your bones to marrow
break you open
break you
down
so, lady luck don’t you look no more
i’m waiting here beside an open door
there’s somone comin and they’re lookin fine
gonna turn my water to wine
gonna light it up for you
gonna light it up for you
gonna go all honey on you
just to see what it makes you do ----
and it’s like
magic, magic
light it up
By Owen Taylor, My Gay Banjo
Chords: (Capo in the 2nd fret)
Intro/Choruses: G, Em7, D, C
Verses: Em7, G
(Note: on guitar, Julia plays Em7 like an open G chord but with an E for the base note)
(intro/chorus)
we were country boys in the city,
making noise and looking pretty,
now I'm sitting here in my hometown, tired and dirty,
singing loud to the night, I want your dirty
hands to hold me tight, and take me on,
and take me on
(verse)
not the golden child
not the man on trial
we were only boys
running wild...running
(chorus)
we were country boys in the city,
making noise and looking pretty,
now I'm sitting here in my hometown, tired and dirty,
singing loud to the night, I want your dirty
hands to hold me tight, and take me on,
and take me on
(verse)
things cry out in the night
looking for love or looking for a fight
i hear your voice and i wanna love...
love you right...love you
love you right...love you
(chorus)
we were country boys in the city,
making noise and looking pretty,
now I'm sitting here in my hometown, tired and dirty,
singing loud to the night, I want your dirty
hands to hold me tight, and take me on,
and take me on
oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh
oh oh
oh oh oh oh
(we were) country boys, in the city
making noise, looking pretty
singing loud to the night
take me on
Like Magic
by Julia Steele Allen (My Gay Banjo)
Chords: (Capo 5th fret)
hey there fox, light a cigarette for me
scratch it out, strike it up
i’m a lady, don’t you know
i’m a lady of the night
gonna light it up for me
gonna go rock n roll on me
gonna taste all i want for free
for free for free
sayin who---
who me?
who me?
devil’s daughter, it’s a fine debate
we could dance all night, we could stay up late
don’t you want me to want you back
don’t you want me to teach you how
gonna teach you to scream and shout
gonna get all your demons out
give the people something to dream about
they’re sayin, sayin, wanna know
who---
are you?
are you?
clock strikes it’s a helter skelter
gonna search for some evening shelter
to crush crush your bones to marrow
break you open
break you
down
so, lady luck don’t you look no more
i’m waiting here beside an open door
there’s somone comin and they’re lookin fine
gonna turn my water to wine
gonna light it up for you
gonna light it up for you
gonna go all honey on you
just to see what it makes you do ----
and it’s like
magic, magic
light it up